The Reprobate Movie Night: Beastly Bugs Double Bill
A pair of 1970s TV movies about the creepy crawly threat of savage bees and panic-inducing ants.
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The Reprobate Movie Night: Carquake And The Giant Spider Invasion
Recreating a classic – if unlikely – theatrical double bill from the 1970s.
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Reprobate Movie Night: Encounter With Disaster
Our occasional movie presentation returns with a classic 1979 shockumentary.
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No Hex Please, We’re British : Prophecies Of The Virgin Witch
1970s occultism meets sexploitation – but also looks forward to the female-led Wiccan world of today.
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Let’s Hear It For King Kong ’76
The Seventies remake of King Kong has been much maligned over the years. We make the case for the defence.
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Ghosts, Paranoia And Folk Horror: The Creepy World Of British 1970s Children’s TV
The scary TV shows made for kids in the 1970s were unnervingly good at getting under the skin – and remain just as effective today.
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The Horrors Of Old Age: George Romero’s The Amusement Park
George Romero’s ‘lost’ film shows us a horrific vision of old age – but loses the point in a rather laboured attempt at metaphorical provocation.
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The Special London Bridge Special – An Unbelievable All-Star Mess
Tom Jones heads an extravagant and unlikely cast in a 1972 TV special celebrating the opening of the relocated London Bridge in Arizona.
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The Classic Monsters Meet The Superheroes
In the outlandish and fantastical world of the superhero comic, it should come as no surprise that little is off-limits, even a foray into gothic and literary horror.
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The ‘Orrible World Of 8mm Horror
From the days before VHS – movie collecting, curious edits and weird retitling.
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Farrah Fawcett – The Cover Girl Of The 1970s
The Charlie’s Angels star became the go-to cover star for magazines of all sorts during the second half of the 1970s.
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The Lost History Of The Cycle Sluts: A Gender-Bending Cabaret Show
The story behind a now-forgotten pioneering queer-culture drag show from the 1970s.
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